How to say “investigation” in 33 languages
Every one of these is a word that turns up in ordinary speech, not a dictionary curiosity — the number beside it is where it ranks in that language.
It is commonest in Tamil, where விசாரணை is the 370th most used word.
- Albanian hetim investigation, inquiry, probe #1,909
- Bengali তদন্ত investigation, enquiry, probe #657
- Bosnian istraga inquiry, investigation #2,246
- Bulgarian разследване investigation, inquiry, examination #1,437
- Catalan investigació #901
- Croatian istraga inquiry, investigation #1,973
- Czech vyšetřování #1,153
- Danish undersøgelse examination, investigation, test #2,485
- Dutch controle checkup, investigation #688
- French enquête inquest, investigation, examination #927
- Galician investigación #1,194
- German untersuchung examination, investigation #2,246
- Hebrew חקירה An investigation, an inquiry: a methodical… #1,287
- Hindi परीक्षण examination, investigation #963
- Indonesian penyelidikan #1,511
- Italian indagine investigation, inquiry, probe, enquiry #1,765
- Korean 조사 investigation; examination #1,082
- Macedonian истрага inquiry, investigation #1,349
- Malay siasat investigative inquiry; investigation #1,037
- Norwegian etterforskningen #2,360
- Persian تحقیق #1,999
- Polish śledztwo #2,168
- Portuguese investigação #1,118
- Russian расследование #1,657
- Serbian istraga inquiry, investigation #2,234
- Spanish investigación #911
- Swedish utredningen an investigation #2,217
- Tagalog imbestigasyon #2,114
- Tamil விசாரணை investigation, inquiry #370
- Telugu విచారణ investigation, examination, inquiry, search,… #446
- Turkish soruşturma verbal noun of soruşturmak; investigation #1,842
- Ukrainian дослідження investigation, research, study, inquiry #1,970
- Urdu تحقیق research, investigation #1,121
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.